Background
Anatole Nkou, who was born in Brazzaville, is the son of the late Prosper Marcel Ondoa Nkou (1905-1978), a Franco-Cameroonian landowner and Marine Officer of the Evouzok-Ewondo tribe.
Anatole Nkou, who was born in Brazzaville, is the son of the late Prosper Marcel Ondoa Nkou (1905-1978), a Franco-Cameroonian landowner and Marine Officer of the Evouzok-Ewondo tribe.
He is also the younger brother of His Majesty Innocent Ondoa Nkou, Paramount Chief of the Evouzok-Ewondo tribe (Fifinda) and Vice General Manager of the BICEC Cameroun groupe BPCE. Ambassador Nkou graduated with a Doctorate of the International Relations Institute of Cameroon in 1972. He also graduated from the ENAM of Cameroon in the same year. He has a doctorate in History and International Relations.
After working in several diplomatic missions in Beijing, Moscow, Madrid, Addis Ababa, among other countries, Nkou became Cameroon"s Ambassador to the United Nations Office at Geneva in 2007.